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The Growth of the Western Communities, 1917-19481 Rochelle Davis
Chapter30 Two JERUSALEM 1948 The Growth of the Western Communities, 1917-19481 Rochelle Davis ntroduction I When the British occupied Jerusalem at the end of 1917, they found a city wasted by the hardships and deprivations of World War I. When they left the city in the spring of 1948, they relinquished what had become a vibrant and cosmopolitan city to be ravaged and divided in the 1948 war over Palestine. This chapter will address the social, physical, economic, and demographic transformations taking place in the intervening thirty years. A realistic and complex assessment of the British role in the growth of the city would consider how the British administration and regulations shaped the development of a city in which there were vastly different interests, desires, goals, wealth, languages, and living styles. However, the majority of scholarly work focuses on British achievements in providing a stable and substantial water supply to the city, the sanitation network, road work, etc., or alternatively, the changes brought to the city by the European Jewish immigrants. But to focus entirely on how these improvements molded the city is unfortunate. The indigenous members of the Jerusalem community were active and creative participants in the changes and developments going on around them, contributing greatly to their own lives and futures. It is how Arab, Greek, and Armenian Jerusalemites lived their lives and the environments they created in the New City that will be the focus of this chapter.2 With this view in mind, this chapter will attempt to elucidate some of the socio- economic features that characterized life in twentieth-century Arab Jerusalem the different suburbs of the New City, education, and social life, among other thingsto try and create a picture of living in this cosmopolitan and rapidly growing city. -
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The Books in My My journey of publication began at the American University of Beirut, which imposed Life: A Memoir on its professors a dictum imported from the United States – “publish or perish.” Part 2 This made publication, especially in foreign journals, the most important standard for Tarif Khalidi climbing the academic ladder toward full professorship. The motto became like a sword hovering over our necks. Academic research is undoubtedly necessary for teaching, but the basic characteristic of a good teacher is the ability to relay academic material to students in a way that awakens their minds and curiosity; regrettably, this was not taken into consideration for academic promotion. My dear friend Kamal Salibi once told me: When I published my first article, which included a list of the greatest judges during the Mamluk period, in a French Orientalist journal, I was overwhelmed by euphoria and went about sending copies of the article to my relatives and friends. One of my friends told me: All you have done is transfer this information from Editor’s Note: one obscure location to another. This is the second of three installments of Tarif Khalidi’s A somewhat harsh judgement, but does it not memoir in JQ, published here with apply to innumerable “academic” articles, permission from the author. It was in both the humanities and the sciences? translated from Arabic by Zahra Are not skillful and creative teachers at any Khalidi, and excerpted, edited, and university few and far between? If Socrates annotated by Alex Winder. It was or Jesus himself taught at a university, they originally published (in Arabic) in would have received the lowest standing installments in al-Akhbar newspaper, among the professors – if the university would the first of which appeared on 17 have kept them on at all – since they never December 2016, and collected in a published anything: “Dear Professor Socrates, monograph published by Manshurat We regret to inform you that the university’s al-Jamal. -
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Jerusalem Quarterly Edition 75 (In Pdf)
Autumn 2018 INSTITUTE OF JERUSALEM STUDIES Editors: Salim Tamari and Issam Nassar Associate Editors: Penny Johnson and Alex Winder Managing Editor: Carol Khoury Advisory Board Yazid Anani, A. M. Qattan Foundation, Ramallah Rochelle Davis, Georgetown University, USA Beshara Doumani, Brown University, USA Michael Dumper, University of Exeter, UK Rema Hammami, Birzeit University, Birzeit George Hintlian, Christian Heritage Institute, Jerusalem Huda al-Imam, Palestine Accueil, Jerusalem Omar Imseeh Tesdell, Birzeit University, Birzeit Nazmi al-Jubeh, Birzeit University, Birzeit Hasan Khader, al-Karmel Magazine, Ramallah Rashid Khalidi, Columbia University, USA Roberto Mazza, University of Limerick, Ireland Yusuf Natsheh, al-Quds University, Jerusalem Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, Mada al-Carmel, Haifa Tina Sherwell, International Academy of Art Palestine, Ramallah Jerusalem Quarterly (JQ) is the leading journal on the past, present, and future of Jerusalem. It documents the current status of the city and its predicaments. It is also dedicated to new and rigorous lines of inquiry by emerging scholars on Palestinian society and culture. Published since 1998 by the Institute for Palestine Studies through its affiliate, the Institute of Jerusalem Studies, the Jerusalem Quarterly is available online in its entirety at www.palestine-stdies.org/jq. This journal is produced with the financial assistance of the Heinrich Böll Stiftung Palestine/Jordan. The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do therefore not necessarily reflect the opinion of the Heinrich Böll Stiftung, nor those of the editors or the Institute of Jerusalem Studies. www.palestine-studies.org ISSN 1565-2254 Design and Printing: Al Nasher Autumn 2018 — Issue 75 formerly the Jerusalem Quarterly File For local subscriptions to JQ, contact: The Institute of Jerusalem Studies P.O. -
A Historiographic Review of Literature on the Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict "
"A Historiographic Review of Literature on the Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict " by Kenneth W. Stein in THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW DECEMBER 1991 VOL 96 NUMBER 5, pp. 1450-1465 A recently completed study analyzed the status of Middle Eastern history in colleges and universities in the United States. It revealed that American and European historians have maintained an imposing preponderance within academic departments of history. Curriculum and scholarship about "Third World" countries continue to be represented by proportionately few historians. Furthermore, within the "Third World" area, there are fewer teaching positions for the Middle East than for Africa, East Asia, or Latin America. 1 In North America and Western Europe, academic centers for the study of the Middle East developed slowly after World War II. Studying and teaching Middle Eastern history took place at a limited number of institutions, introduced only as adjuncts to the coursework on Semitic languages, philology, or religion. Today, the number of properly trained Middle Eastern historians remains low, partly because of the challenging requirements of intricate foreign languages, the prolonged time needed to complete a doctorate, and lower remuneration than in alternative job opportunities for those with a Middle Eastern academic interest. In comparison to other fields of historical study, Middle Eastern history is a relatively young specialty, sparsely populated, and undeveloped in range and depth of scholarly publications. Since Middle Eastern historians are few in number, they are usually responsible for teaching regional courses that require broad historical coverage and often encompass issues that range chronologically from the Prophet Muhammad's life to Ayatollah Khomeini's death. -
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Narrating the Self Biographies II Yusuf al-‘Isa: A Founder of Modern Journalism Emanuel Beška The Taufiq Canaan Memoirs Taufiq Canaan The Books in My Life: A Memoir Summer 2018 Tarif Khalidi Ali Za‘rur: Early Palestinian Photojournalism Rona Sela Sir Charles Tegart: The “Counterterrorism Expert” in Palestine Richard Cahill Haile Selassie in Jerusalem Vicken V. Kalbian Summer On the Wings of Memory: Schmidt’s Girls School Bayan Nuwayhed al-Hout Adele Azar - Public Charity and Early Feminism Salim Tamari 2018 POLICY REPOER: The East Jerusalem Municipality Walid Salem POLICY BREIF: Empowering Jerusalem’s Most Marginalized Palestinian Women Juzoor for Health & Social Development www.palestine-studies.org INSTITUTE OF JERUSALEM STUDIES Editors: Salim Tamari and Issam Nassar Associate Editors: Penny Johnson and Alex Winder Managing Editor: Carol Khoury Communication & Outreach Officer: Ulla Mundinger Advisory Board Yazid Anani, A. M. Qattan Foundation, Ramallah Rochelle Davis, Georgetown University, USA Beshara Doumani, Brown University, USA Michael Dumper, University of Exeter, UK Rema Hammami, Birzeit University, Birzeit George Hintlian, Christian Heritage Institute, Jerusalem Huda al-Imam, Palestine Accueil, Jerusalem Omar Imseeh Tesdell, Birzeit University, Birzeit Nazmi al-Jubeh, Birzeit University, Birzeit Hasan Khader, al-Karmel Magazine, Ramallah Rashid Khalidi, Columbia University, USA Roberto Mazza, University of Limerick, Ireland Yusuf Natsheh, al-Quds University, Jerusalem Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, Mada al-Carmel, Haifa Tina Sherwell, International Academy of Art Palestine, Ramallah The Jerusalem Quarterly (JQ) is published by the Institute of Jerusalem Studies (IJS), an affiliate of the Institute for Palestine Studies. The journal is dedicated to providing scholarly articles on Jerusalem’s history and on the dynamics and trends currently shaping the city. -
Arab Nationalism: Historical Problems in the Literature Author(S): Rashid Khalidi Source: the American Historical Review, Vol
Arab Nationalism: Historical Problems in the Literature Author(s): Rashid Khalidi Source: The American Historical Review, Vol. 96, No. 5 (Dec., 1991), pp. 1363-1373 Published by: Oxford University Press on behalf of the American Historical Association Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2165275 Accessed: 24-05-2020 22:28 UTC REFERENCES Linked references are available on JSTOR for this article: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2165275?seq=1&cid=pdf-reference#references_tab_contents You may need to log in to JSTOR to access the linked references. JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at https://about.jstor.org/terms Oxford University Press, American Historical Association are collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to The American Historical Review This content downloaded from 79.147.42.147 on Sun, 24 May 2020 22:28:34 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms Arab Nationalism: Historical Problems in the Literature RASHID KHALIDI As WITH MANY ASPECTS OF MIDDLE EASTERN HISTORY, the study of Arab nation- alism has tended to remain isolated from broader trends in history and the social sciences and specifically from the comparative study of nationalism. Similarly, most writing on nationalism has drawn sparingly on Middle Eastern examples. -
The 1975 Lebanese Civil War(S)
The 1975 Lebanese Civil War(s): The Origin of Conflict and a Conflict of Origins By Racha Ghanem Department of History and Classical Studies McGill University, Montreal August, 2019 A thesis submitted to McGill University in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the degree of Master of Arts © Racha Ghanem, 2019 Page 1 of 100 Table of Contents Abstract……………………………………………………………………………………………3 Acknowledgements………………………………………………………………………………..4 Introduction………………………………………………………………………………………..5 Theory, Methodology, and the Meaning of Narrative………………………………...…...10 The Origin of the War: A Controversy……………………………...………………….....12 Chapter One: Alternative Narratives…………………………………………………………..….17 Chapter Two: Sectarian Narratives………………………………………………………………41 Exogenous Origins of Civil War…………………………………………………………41 Endogenous Origins of Civil War………………………………………………………..64 Conclusion: A War of Others………………………………………………………………….....84 Bibliography………………………………………………………………………………….......96 Page 2 of 100 Abstract This thesis explores how the beginning of the Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990), a ravaging and recent conflict, is interpreted and studied in scholarly works. The lengthy Lebanese historiography on the conflict is riddled with various contradictions on all matters regarding the cause and origin of the Civil War. In this essay, four carefully selected narratives will be introduced and dissected to ultimately reveal the fealties and boundaries in scholarly works. The essay is divided into several chapters in which both the specific type of narrative and its framing devices are demonstrated. The authors’ point of emphasis – domestic dimension, international affairs, or regional actors – determines the differences in the stories they tell. The study is primarily concerned with the effects that the War has had on historical writing and secondly with how this writing has affected the memory of the conflict. Résumé Cette thèse rapporte la manière dont le début de la Guerre Civile Libanaise (1975-1990), un conflit à graves dégâts dévastateurs, est interprété dans les ouvrages académiques. -
A Memoir Returned to Modern History
The Books in My Once I launched Arab Historical Thought in the Classical Period, wishing it success, I Life: A Memoir returned to modern history. I was encouraged to study daily life in the Arab world during Part 3 the two world wars as part of an edited volume covering the lives of ordinary people from various nations during that period.1 I Tarif Khalidi vacillated quite a bit before accepting the editors’ invitation to contribute, as I was not an authority on that historical period. However, it soon became clear to me that the basic research material upon which I would draw would be the memoirs of those who lived during that time. In the past, I had taken great pleasure in reading such works – of which there are few comparable examples in the pre-modern Arab heritage2 – and this encouraged me to accept the invitation. Memoirs of the Arab Twentieth Century I began reading memoirs from the first half of the twentieth century with great pleasure and curiosity, intending to include writers from the Levant, Egypt, and Iraq in my contribution. In a previous study of al-‘Irfan magazine, I had become acquainted with Lebanon’s Editor’s Note: history during World War I, finding that war’s This is the third and final installment tragedy had not spread evenly throughout the of Tarif Khalidi’s memoir in JQ, country, but was confined to particular areas.3 published here with permission For example, the famine of Mount Lebanon from the author. It was translated did not repeat itself in southern Lebanon, from Arabic by Zahra Khalidi, and just as Palestine did not experience the same excerpted, edited, and annotated disasters as those witnessed in the mountains by Alex Winder. -
The Books in My Life: a Memoir Company for a Number of Years
The Books in My I have spent more of my lifetime with books than with people. The reason, perhaps, is that Life: A Memoir I have found a sort of amusement in books that I did not find with most people. Thus, Part 1 over my lifetime, the number of friends that I had decreased and the number of books I Tarif Khalidi befriended increased. I became older and more firmly isolated. My real world became that of reading and writing. Fakhr al-Din al- Razi described the behavior of the elderly as “doubting most of what is said, refusing to pass final judgments, cowardliness, fear, and an awareness of the repercussions of situations in addition to greediness for food, insolence, anger, and a love of safety.”1 I do not know how many of these traits I currently possess, but I find some of them to be precise descriptions of the psychology and behavior of the elderly. I have no doubt that questioning everything, refusing to pass judgment, and an appreciation of situations’ repercussions are also traits often derived from the experience that one finds in books. Indeed, if books offered nothing else, their benefit would still be great. As for their other virtues, I can only direct the reader toward the magnificent and supreme depth of thought found in the first part of al-Jahiz’s al-Hayawan. I must admit that the direct inspiration for writing my memoirs came from a number of books, most recently the British academic and critic John Carey’s The Unexpected Professor: Editor's Note: An Oxford Life in Books, published in 2014.2 Originally published (in Arabic) in In it, Carey narrates his literary life’s memoirs, installments in al-Akhbar newspaper, describing the books that had an impact on his the first of which appeared on 17 mind and imagination. -
Contemporary Research Trends on the History of Jerusalem, in December 2000, and Was Revised for Publication in July 2001
A Research Agenda for Writing the History of Jerusalem1 Rashid I. Khalidi Columbia University Jerusalem is a city with a great deal of history, layer upon layer of it, represented in its more than twenty-five archaeological strata, and at least a dozen major historical periods. Jerusalem may indeed have too much history for a living city to come to terms with easily. As in Rome, Istanbul, and a few other cities of great antiquity that have long been sites of deep feeling and intense conflict, in Jerusalem the past and the present have often been involved in an uneasy coexistence, and they remain so until this day. For proof of this, one need only note the sometimes violent political conflicts that have erupted in Jerusalem in recent years over matters concerning history, such as archaeological excavations, the uncovering of graves, and the restoration of monuments. In Jerusalem, as elsewhere, this problem is severely exacerbated by the sharp antagonism between competing forces in the present, which appeal to different pasts to buttress their present claims. At the same time, like many other locales that have been the focus of conflicting passions, in Jerusalem much history has been suppressed, denied, ignored or forgotten. It is also a place where names attach to sites for no apparent historical reason. One example is the famous landmark surmounting the Citadel on the western side of the walls surrounding the Old City. 1 This article is based on a paper originally presented to the Institute for Jerusalem Studies conference on “Contemporary Research Trends on the History of Jerusalem, in December 2000, and was revised for publication in July 2001. -
The Political Economy of Jerusalem and Nablus in the Nineteenth Century
A LAND WITH A PEOPLE: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF JERUSALEM AND NABLUS IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY Paul F. Horton B.A., Simon Fraser University, 1989 THESIS SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF Master of Arts in the Department of History O Paul F. Horton 1993 SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY January 1993 All rights reserved. This work may not be reproduced in whole or in part, by photocopy or other means, without permission of the author. APPROVAL NAME: Paul F. Horton DEGREE: TITLE OF THESIS: A Land with a People: The Political Economy of Jerusalem and Nablus in the Nineteenth Century EXAMINING COMMITTEE: CHAIR: J. I. Little William Cleveland, ~rofes'sor Department of History - - John Spagnolo, ~~so&tech.ofessor- Department of History -- - Derryl MacLean, Associate Professor Department of History Hani Faris, ~esearch~<soaate - Institute of Apwi7GZh British Columbia (Exa DATE: 27 Janaury 1993 PARTIAL COPYRIGHT LICENSE I hereby grant to Simon Fraser University the right to lend my thesis, project or extended essay (the title of which is shown below) to users of the Simon Fraser University Library, and to make partial or single copies only for such users or in response to a request from the library of any other university, or other educational institution, on its own behalf or for one of its users. I further agree that permission for multiple copying of this work for scholarly purposes may be granted by me or the Dean of Graduate Studies. It is understood that copying or publication of this work for financial gain shall not be allowed without my written permission.